Ie11 downloading mp4 instead of playing

 · Faster. Safer. Internet Explorer 11 makes the web blazing fast on Windows 7. Now with Bing and MSN defaults for an improved web experience. Fast: Fast at loading sites and fluid as you navigate through them. Easy: Seamless with Windows, it just works the way that you want. Safer: Better protection from threats and increased privacy online. Home page: Stay in the know with the latest .  · Internet Explorer 11 not able to play mp4 video files. I'm having a problem with internet explorer 11 playing MP4 videos that are embedded within websites. I can play the videos in chrome no problem but in IE i see no video, if i browse directly to the video location internet explorer will open it in Media player and the video plays fine.  · I have a Windows Server IIS server that I would like to use for streaming media. In particular I would like to use IIS along with Bit Rate Throttling to stream MP4 files. When I acccess the URL, Internet Explorer prompts me to download and save the file instead of directly launching Windows Media Player.

Video files are downloading instead of playing [closed] Ask Question Asked 8 years, 4 months ago. Active 8 years, 4 months ago. Viewed 2k times 1 Closed. This But instead of playing the file it tries to download it everytime the page loads and the player never shows up. Scroll down to Windows Media Player. Click "Choose defaults for this program". A list of file formats will appear. Scroll down and find the video file formats you want to associate to Windows Media Player such bltadwin.ru4. Click on Save. Once you attempt to launch the course, rather than downloading, the video will play. mp4 pages download bltadwin.ru4 file instead of playing the file within the browser. 2 replies 4 have this problem views; Last reply by eco 3 years ago. eco 12/23/17, AM. more options. Quote; Firefox used to just play the videos within the browser but recently it stopped. It also stopped playing videos on bltadwin.ru I have.

I have a Windows Server IIS server that I would like to use for streaming media. In particular I would like to use IIS along with Bit Rate Throttling to stream MP4 files. When I acccess the URL, Internet Explorer prompts me to download and save the file instead of directly launching Windows Media Player. But Internet Explorer refuses to play ball. When I load up the page in IE 11, I just get a video decoding error: In Internet Explorer's developer tools, I can see that it's getting a content type of video/mp4, and just to completely eliminate server issues I've tried it on both my local Apache install and my web hosting. 42 votes, 12 comments. Hi, I am not that used to Windows and IE11, today I ran in to this problem where IE11 opens up Media player to play .